.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 322 202
Rank change year-on-year +96 -120 -60
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 802 369 989
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.84% 0.84% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.43% 4.55% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 745 325 827
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.73% +12.17% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,793 8,114 14,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.34% 18.55% 20.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8,026 5,447 10,939
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +7.51% -6.99%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 20 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +112 210 £56,250 +9.76% 52
North of England +53 177 £55,000 -8.33% 41
East of England +76 118 £60,000 +20.00% 26
Midlands +47 109 £55,000 -8.33% 17
London -107 101 £80,000 +3.23% 64
South West -15 82 £52,500 - 13
North East +4 74 £65,000 +33.33% 13
North West -6 64 £50,000 -16.67% 21
West Midlands +10 63 £55,000 -8.33% 11
East Midlands +8 46 £53,750 +2.38% 6
Yorkshire -11 39 £47,500 -20.83% 8
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.25%) IIS
3 7 (0.87%) CMS
3 7 (0.87%) Confluence
4 4 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.37%) DNN
5 3 (0.37%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.37%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.37%) Kentico
5 3 (0.37%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Magento
1 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.25%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 654 (81.55%) Azure
2 224 (27.93%) Azure DevOps
3 156 (19.45%) GitHub
4 139 (17.33%) AWS
5 138 (17.21%) GitHub Copilot
6 134 (16.71%) Azure AI
7 78 (9.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 47 (5.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 46 (5.74%) Power Platform
10 33 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 33 (4.11%) Power Automate
11 29 (3.62%) Azure Monitor
11 29 (3.62%) PowerApps
12 26 (3.24%) SaaS
13 23 (2.87%) Azure Key Vault
13 23 (2.87%) Serverless
14 22 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (2.37%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (2.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.74%) Internet
2 7 (0.87%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.37%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) HTTP
5 1 (0.12%) Modbus
5 1 (0.12%) Network Security
5 1 (0.12%) SSL
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 448 (55.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 373 (46.51%) MongoDB
3 155 (19.33%) SQL Server
4 154 (19.20%) Elasticsearch
5 37 (4.61%) Power BI
6 25 (3.12%) MySQL
7 24 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.50%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.37%) NonStop SQL
10 11 (1.37%) Redis
11 8 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.87%) GIS
13 4 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.37%) ZAP BI
15 2 (0.25%) MariaDB
16 1 (0.12%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 73 (9.10%) Git
2 15 (1.87%) JIRA
3 13 (1.62%) NUnit
4 10 (1.25%) GitLab
5 7 (0.87%) MSI
5 7 (0.87%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.75%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.62%) Postman
7 5 (0.62%) Snyk
8 3 (0.37%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.37%) JUnit
8 3 (0.37%) Selenium
8 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.37%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.12%) MSTest
9 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 119 (14.84%) Finance
2 83 (10.35%) Social Skills
3 57 (7.11%) Advertising
4 44 (5.49%) Games
5 41 (5.11%) Marketing
6 35 (4.36%) Retail
7 33 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
9 25 (3.12%) Public Sector
10 22 (2.74%) Law
11 15 (1.87%) Banking
12 14 (1.75%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.37%) Music Industry
14 10 (1.25%) Legal
15 9 (1.12%) Automotive
16 8 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.62%) Front Office
17 5 (0.62%) Local Government
17 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 673 (83.92%) Developer
2 528 (65.84%) .NET Developer
3 107 (13.34%) Senior
4 96 (11.97%) Software Developer
5 71 (8.85%) Senior Developer
6 63 (7.86%) C# Developer
7 58 (7.23%) Lead
8 47 (5.86%) C# .NET Developer
9 41 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 36 (4.49%) Lead Developer
10 36 (4.49%) Software Engineer
11 29 (3.62%) .NET Software Developer
12 24 (2.99%) Senior Software Developer
13 23 (2.87%) Senior C# Developer
14 20 (2.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (2.37%) C# Software Developer
15 19 (2.37%) Lead .NET Developer
16 18 (2.24%) .NET Software Engineer
17 17 (2.12%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 17 (2.12%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 802 (100.00%) .NET
2 521 (64.96%) ASP.NET
3 450 (56.11%) ASP.NET Core
4 237 (29.55%) CSS
5 236 (29.43%) HTML
6 226 (28.18%) Entity Framework
7 218 (27.18%) Blazor
8 205 (25.56%) React
9 188 (23.44%) AngularJS
10 184 (22.94%) RESTful
11 172 (21.45%) ASP.NET Web API
11 172 (21.45%) Vue
12 159 (19.83%) Node.js
13 146 (18.20%) .NET Framework
14 134 (16.71%) ML.NET
15 108 (13.47%) LINQ
16 75 (9.35%) REST
17 45 (5.61%) JSON
18 37 (4.61%) WPF
19 28 (3.49%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.85%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (7.86%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.62%) Cloud Native
3 21 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.49%) Digital TV
4 20 (2.49%) Mobile App
5 17 (2.12%) iPhone
6 16 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.62%) Sports Betting
9 12 (1.50%) Social Network
10 11 (1.37%) BBC
10 11 (1.37%) Hedge funds
10 11 (1.37%) Social Media
11 10 (1.25%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.25%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.87%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.87%) Client/Server
13 7 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.74%) Windows
2 17 (2.12%) Android
3 5 (0.62%) VMS
4 4 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (65.34%) Full-Stack Development
2 421 (52.49%) Agile
3 273 (34.04%) CI/CD
4 272 (33.92%) DevOps
5 217 (27.06%) Microservices
6 167 (20.82%) AI
7 154 (19.20%) Machine Learning
8 146 (18.20%) Multithreading
9 102 (12.72%) Scrum
10 97 (12.09%) Software Engineering
11 89 (11.10%) OO
12 84 (10.47%) TDD
13 68 (8.48%) BDD
14 64 (7.98%) User Experience
15 63 (7.86%) Kanban
16 58 (7.23%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
16 58 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
17 54 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
17 54 (6.73%) Mentoring
18 53 (6.61%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 750 (93.52%) C#
2 522 (65.09%) SQL
3 260 (32.42%) JavaScript
4 213 (26.56%) TypeScript
5 32 (3.99%) PowerShell
6 28 (3.49%) Python
7 14 (1.75%) Java
7 14 (1.75%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.87%) Bicep
9 6 (0.75%) Bash
9 6 (0.75%) VBA
10 4 (0.50%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.50%) Ruby
10 4 (0.50%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.37%) Go
12 2 (0.25%) C
12 2 (0.25%) Dart
12 2 (0.25%) PHP
12 2 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 66 (8.23%) Degree
2 29 (3.62%) Security Cleared
3 28 (3.49%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.12%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.37%) ICAEW
7 3 (0.37%) OCP
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.87%) QA
2 25 (3.12%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.87%) NCSC
3 7 (0.87%) WCAG
4 4 (0.50%) GDPR
5 3 (0.37%) NIST
6 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.12%) ITGC
7 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 196 (24.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 179 (22.32%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.37%) Ansible
2 3 (0.37%) Grafana
2 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 528 (65.84%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.61%) Facebook
3 46 (5.74%) Google
4 21 (2.62%) YouTube
5 19 (2.37%) Adobe
6 11 (1.37%) Apple
6 11 (1.37%) Sony
6 11 (1.37%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.75%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.75%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (0.50%) Sitecore
8 4 (0.50%) Workday
9 3 (0.37%) Alterian
9 3 (0.37%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.37%) Splunk
10 2 (0.25%) IFS
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle
10 2 (0.25%) Sage
10 2 (0.25%) Veracode